On June 5, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) will host the seventh annual Financial Freedom track at the 2024 Oslo Freedom Forum.
The track is designed to shed light on how authoritarian regimes around the world are deploying financial repression tools to target dissidents and to show how citizens worldwide are pushing back with open-source software. It will feature speakers from more than a dozen countries worldwide, ranging from Nigeria to Nicaragua.
The Financial Freedom track will be a great place for activists to meet world experts who can help them strengthen their work with better financial tools that governments cannot stop.
On June 3 and 4, HRF will also run a Bitcoin 101 for Activists workshop series at the Oslo Concert Hall, covering the basics of using Bitcoin as safely and effectively as possible for nonprofit leaders.
Meet Our Financial Freedom Speakers
Lyn Alden
Macroeconomist; author of “Broken Money”
Jack Dorsey
CEO at Block; co-founder, Twitter
Matt Odell
Managing partner, Ten31; co-founder, Open Sats; host, Citadel Dispatch and Rabbit Hole Recap
Jack Mallers
Founder and CEO, Strike
Elizabeth Stark
Co-founder and CEO, Lightning Labs
Farida Nabourema
Co-founder, Africa Bitcoin Conference
Jeff Booth
Author, “The Price of Tomorrow”; general partner, Ego Death Capital
Lisa Neigut
Co-founder, Base58; founder, Bitcoin++
Peter McCormack
Host, “What Bitcoin Did”
Lorraine Marcel
Founder, Bitcoin Dada
Ben Perrin
Bitcoin educator; host, “Why Are We Bullish”
Carla Kirk-Cohen
Software engineer, Chaincode Labs; board member, Btrust
Troy Cross
Professor of philosophy and humanities, Reed College; co-founder of the Nakamoto Project
Abubakar Nur Khalil
Bitcoin core contributor; CEO, Recursive Capital; board member, Btrust
Anita Posch
Founder, Bitcoin for Fairness
Dulce Villarreal
CEO and founder, Libreria de Satoshi
Femi Longe
Program director, Btrust Builders
Calle
Bitcoin and Lightning developer; creator, Cashu
Obi Nwosu
Founder and CEO, Fedi; board member, Btrust
Jhanisse Vaca Daza
Director, HRF Freedom Fellows
Charlene Fadirepo
CEO, Mango Digital Strategies
Alex Gladstein
Chief Strategy Officer, Human Rights Foundation; author, “Check Your Financial Privilege”
Noble Nyangoma
CEO, Bitcoin Innovation Hub
D++
Bitcoin educator
Craig Raw
Founder, Sparrow Wallet
Nick Anthony
Policy analyst, Cato Institute; HRF CBDC Tracker Fellow
Luthando Ndabambi
Community director, Bitcoin Ekasi
Paul Itoi
Co-founder and CEO, Stakwork
Mogashni Naidoo
Co-founder, Bitcoin Design Foundation
Roger Huang
Journalist and contributor, Forbes
Hadiya Masieh
Founder and CEO, Groundswell Project
Thomas Pacchia
Founder, Pubkey
Amiti Uttarwar
Bitcoin Core contributor
MacKenzie Sigalos
Technology reporter, CNBC
Dr. Álvaro Salas-Castro
President and CEO, Reynolds Foundation
Anna Chekhovich
HRF nonprofit bitcoin adoption lead
Christian Keroles
Director of Financial Freedom, HRF
Ayelen Osorio
Content and research lead, HRF
Alex Li
Bitcoin development lead, HRF
Arsh Molu
Events and logistics lead, HRF
This is just one part of the 16th Oslo Freedom Forum, taking place from June 3 to 5 in Oslo, Norway. You can find additional details about the event and participating speakers at oslofreedomforum.com and regular updates on our X and Instagram.
If you are interested in sponsoring the Oslo Freedom Forum, please contact [email protected]. If you are interested in attending as a member of the media, please contact [email protected].
If you are interested in bringing your family to the OFF Camp for Kids, please contact [email protected]. OFF Camp for Kids is an interdisciplinary human rights camp that includes fun activities, sports, and educational programming around the city of Oslo.